We couldn't get enough Jeremy Lin material in the NBA store fast enough. And when we did, it was just gone in minutes.

We're just changing the definition of the uniform that you wear when you are on NBA business,

The card is large enough to store 15 hours of mobile video and fast enough to download 90 minutes of it in under two minutes.

You walk into the playgrounds in Shanghai and Beijing, and you see youngsters who are shorter, shaking and baking and having attitude. And Jeremy Lin is going to inspire all of them.

It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom - not only that black athletes wouldn't sell in white America, but that the NBA as a predominantly black sport could not sell in white America.

Free speech is against governments, not against the NBA. So the players and coaches and indeed owners have been fined for their speech, which is costly rather than free. I sort of acknowledge that there is not free speech when you agree to work in the NBA.